" In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."- Robert Frost.
So here I sit, the apartment quiet, and I'm left with nothing but my thoughts. Most of the time, it's not such a horrible thing to be left alone with my thoughts, but sometimes it really can be a bad thing.
Life was put in perspective for me tonight. When I got news that someone, who is young and has a blindingly bright future ahead of her, is sick. Really sick. And though I don't talk to this person every day, it still hurts to think about.
I'm not naive enough to believe that people my age are immune to illness, or tragedy. I think that just about every year since I left home I have heard of a classmate who passed away. I understand that things like this happen but it just doesn't make any sense to me.
I guess things like this have never made any sort of sense to me, ever. I never understood how bad things can happen, and maybe its because I try to stay optomistic no matter what, and I try to see the good in this world. I will never understand when someone harms a child, or someone loses a parent, or a best friend, or a parent watches their child waste away in front of them. I will never understand it.
As frustrating as the fact that I will never understand is, it forces me to embrace the here and now. It makes me realize, that the people that you have in your life, they are the one's who matter. The one's who bring a smile to your face, or make you feel like your worth something, those are the one's you have to hold on.
Life is just too short people. Too short to hold onto the pain, anger, bitterness, and whatever else is hindering you in being thankful every single day for the people in your life that matter. It's too short to not strive and push yourself every single day to achieve your wildest dreams.
" Laugh as much as you breathe, and love as long as you live."
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